[Slackbuilds-users] .../sbo/repo exists and is not empty. Exiting.

[Habs]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2024, Jim wrote:

> On Wed, Oct  2, 2024 at 20:27 (+0100), Habs wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024, Jim wrote:
>
>>> Hi,
>
>>> every now and then when I run sbocheck it says
>>> Updating SlackBuilds tree...
>>> and then nothing else happens.  Eventually, I ^C and I get
>>>        ^CCould not sync from https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/.
>
>>> But then when I try it again, I get
>>>        .../sbo/repo exists and is not empty. Exiting.
>>> (where "..." is the path to when I keep it that is not of interest).
>
>>> Aside from deleting the repository and downloading the whole thing again, is
>>> there a better way of recovering from this problem?
>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Jim
>
>> good day
>
>> do you have the REPO value set in the .conf file
>> it has been said that having it set helps stability
>
>> this is used here and has worked fine for a long time:
>> REPO=https://gitlab.com/SlackBuilds.org/slackbuilds.git
>
> Yes, I have
>        REPO=https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/
> and have had that for quite a while.
>
>                                Jim
>

That REPO line url you have, does not point to a repository as such...it 
is like an index/header page.  If it worked previously I can't offer an 
explanation, however, if you put in the address you have and then the one 
I supplied and take a look ...  as per the sbotools instructions, the URL 
has to point to a correctly formatted specific repository.

Hope that helps.

Regards